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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: a.out programs are not executable!  cant run any programs..
In-Reply-To: <3390380B.6A28@crl.com> from Andrejs Vanags at "May 31, 97 09:40:04 am"
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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:51:17 -0500 (EST)
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> Hi, I just bought FreeBsd 2.2.1 from Walnut Creek Cdrom.
> 
> I installed it and even recomplied the kernel with no problems.
> However if I try to compile a simple hello.c program with gcc, the
> result is a.out. If I type a.out it says command not found. If I say
> file a.out it  says it is a:
> BSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable not
> stripped. If I do file gcc it says the same but without the not stripped
> part, so I recompiled gcc -s hello.c, got a.out and still doesnt work.
> 
Of course, you will likely have to type "./a.out".  The other trick
is to be careful about naming your program "test".  The shell often uses
that as a builtin command name :-).  That one still gets me once in a
while :-).

John